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Article ON THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY OR SAN GRAAL; ← Page 26 of 26
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
Malmesbury's words would give even his support to this assumption . In his expression , in quo Dominicum corpus sacrabat , Ave need only for the active put the passive sense of the last word , sacrabatur , to make out such meaning , and from the use of the preposition in , a more consistent one than noAv appears . Nor need we find anything contradictory in the Avord corpus when
we consider that contentus is as frequently put pro continente as the reverse ; or that the weighty Avords hoc est coipus meum might have been suggestive to Malrnesbury of his expression , and indicate the use of his jewel for the awful celebration in which they were used . Superadded to all this may be mentioned the account we have read in some German workthat the jewel at
, Reichenau Avas popularly supposed to have been used at the Last Supper , and we may therefore readily suppose that the Anglo-Saxon laity had a similar belief for the Glastonbury jewel , when we find that angels brought it thither , and the people believed it came from heaven . The same miraculous mode of conveyance is ascribed in "Titurel" to the Sangreal ; and all the
rest easily follows : the supernatural once admitted , the idea Avas dilated and improved upon by the imaginative poAvers of later poets , each striving to excel the other in grandeur of thought , and sublimity of imagery . This would account for the inferiority of the younger "Titurel" over such portions as remain of the elder poemfor it is eA en the privilege of oriinal thought to be
un-, g surpassable . The locality of the jewel at Glastonbury Avill also account for the scene of all the metrical romances Avhich centre in King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table being placed in the island or district of Avallon , Avithin which Joseph of Arimathea ' s foundation Avas situate .
From all the above facts and circumstances w e think it may be fairly conceded , that the belief in a dish of great value brought by Joseph of Arimathea into Britain , and that it had been used at the Paschal Supper , once existed in this country , though this belief or legend seems to have been unknoAvn or forgotten at the time of William of Malrnesbury , and the
allusion he makes to it is not understood by himself . We may also conclude , that when the Genoese became possessed of an ancient murhine dish at the sack of Cassarea , their ivonder and their admiration of its beauty soon greAV into a species of veneration , and as the British legend was then in abeyance , the vacant myth Avas willingltransferred ( and the same Avould
y hold good of the Reichenau dish ) to the Catino , Avhich after-Avards was never mentioned but Avith the epithet sacro . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Dr . 17 , Gower Place .
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
Malmesbury's words would give even his support to this assumption . In his expression , in quo Dominicum corpus sacrabat , Ave need only for the active put the passive sense of the last word , sacrabatur , to make out such meaning , and from the use of the preposition in , a more consistent one than noAv appears . Nor need we find anything contradictory in the Avord corpus when
we consider that contentus is as frequently put pro continente as the reverse ; or that the weighty Avords hoc est coipus meum might have been suggestive to Malrnesbury of his expression , and indicate the use of his jewel for the awful celebration in which they were used . Superadded to all this may be mentioned the account we have read in some German workthat the jewel at
, Reichenau Avas popularly supposed to have been used at the Last Supper , and we may therefore readily suppose that the Anglo-Saxon laity had a similar belief for the Glastonbury jewel , when we find that angels brought it thither , and the people believed it came from heaven . The same miraculous mode of conveyance is ascribed in "Titurel" to the Sangreal ; and all the
rest easily follows : the supernatural once admitted , the idea Avas dilated and improved upon by the imaginative poAvers of later poets , each striving to excel the other in grandeur of thought , and sublimity of imagery . This would account for the inferiority of the younger "Titurel" over such portions as remain of the elder poemfor it is eA en the privilege of oriinal thought to be
un-, g surpassable . The locality of the jewel at Glastonbury Avill also account for the scene of all the metrical romances Avhich centre in King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table being placed in the island or district of Avallon , Avithin which Joseph of Arimathea ' s foundation Avas situate .
From all the above facts and circumstances w e think it may be fairly conceded , that the belief in a dish of great value brought by Joseph of Arimathea into Britain , and that it had been used at the Paschal Supper , once existed in this country , though this belief or legend seems to have been unknoAvn or forgotten at the time of William of Malrnesbury , and the
allusion he makes to it is not understood by himself . We may also conclude , that when the Genoese became possessed of an ancient murhine dish at the sack of Cassarea , their ivonder and their admiration of its beauty soon greAV into a species of veneration , and as the British legend was then in abeyance , the vacant myth Avas willingltransferred ( and the same Avould
y hold good of the Reichenau dish ) to the Catino , Avhich after-Avards was never mentioned but Avith the epithet sacro . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Dr . 17 , Gower Place .